The Gang That Shot Their Own Brother During America’s Biggest Train Robbery

The Newton Brothers built one of the strangest outlaw reputations in American history. Willis, Doc, Jess, and Joe Newton were Texas brothers who treated crime less like chaos and more like a trade. They studied weak banks, cut telephone lines, used explosives, moved fast, and escaped before small towns could gather themselves. But in 1924, the gang went after something much bigger than a bank. Their target was a mail train near Roundout, Illinois, carrying cash, bonds, securities, jewelry, and registered valuables. The plan was bold, organized, and dangerous. Then the train stopped in the wrong place. Men moved through the dark. One of the robbers fired too fast. The man he shot was Doc Newton. This is the story of the Newton Gang, the Roundout train robbery, and how one of the biggest scores in American outlaw history collapsed because the man bleeding in the getaway car was one of their own. Join the Eclectic Historical Society for more strange, forgotten, and complicated stories from American history. Support the channel by joining out Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheEclectic... Or picking up merch at our website: https://eclectichistoricsociety.com